On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Michael Litchard <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:michael@schmong.org">michael@schmong.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I&#39;m finding that in more than one instance I pass a data structure to<br>
a function, simply so that I can pass it to it&#39;s helper function. It<br>
bugs me that I&#39;m passing a value that isn&#39;t being used directly. This<br>
seems wrong. Example: I have a &quot;data URLSequence&quot; that contains a way<br>
to calculate the ip address of a URL. This gets passed to a helper<br>
function that generates a particular URL, which then populates the<br>
URLSequence. Is there a standard practice to avoid what I am talking<br>
about? Or is this normal and I should accept it?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think this is normal, and you should accept it. At least, assuming you&#39;re using the result of the helper function somewhere. You could &quot;solve&quot; this by hoisting the body of the helper function into the main function, but that sort of defeats the point of having the helper function. </div>
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